CVE-2008-4298

Description (CNA)

Memory leak in the http_request_parse function in request.c in lighttpd before 1.4.20 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of requests with duplicate request headers.

Affected (CNA)

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/32069
• http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=238180
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32972
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/09/26/5
• http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/changeset/2305
• http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0309
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45471
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32834
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31434
• http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0309
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32132
• http://www.lighttpd.net/security/lighttpd_sa_2008_07.txt
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/497932/100/0/threaded
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2741
• http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1645
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32480
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00002.html
• http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/ticket/1774
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-04.xml

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